Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl explained

Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl
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Artist:Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Catalogue:22
Year:1626
Type:Sculpture
Material:Marble
City:Wiener Neustadt
Museum:Wiener Neustadt Cathedral
Preceded By:St. Peter's Baldachin
Followed By:Two Angels in Sant'Agostino

The Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl is a life-size marble bust of the seventeenth-century cardinal by Gianlorenzo Bernini and his assistants, notably Giuliano Finelli. It was probably executed in 1626. It is unclear how much of the work was executed by Bernini and how much by Finelli, or indeed others in Bernini's studio. The sculpture is part of Klesl's tomb in the cathedral of Wiener Neustadt, just south of Vienna.

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